Never mind. Lousy developers forgot to close a thread, leaving open a file, causing autoDeploy to fail.

What you need is a FOR loop to get each of the files you need, cat each of them and APPEND ">>" to the target file (if you just write ">", each will overwrite the next):

> for i in `ls test*`
do
cat $i >> bigtest.txt
done
>

I have tomcat 5.5 working on both linux and Windows. I am using the default configuration. When I copy a WAR file to webapps/, it will be autodeployed successfully but only the first time. If I "touch" that same WAR file, the autodeploy will fail, leaving only the webapps/[appname]/[appname].log file, which it cannot remove. I have to stop tomcat, remove that file, then restart tomcat, touch the WAR file again and only then will it autodeploy....